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Explicit and Tacit Missions of the Berkeley Language Center

Explicit and Tacit Missions of the Berkeley Language Center. Rick Kern, UC Berkeley. The BLC’s mission . To support the learning and teaching of foreign and heritage languages on the Berkeley campus and, where appropriate, in the University of California system.

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Explicit and Tacit Missions of the Berkeley Language Center

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  1. Explicit and Tacit Missions of the Berkeley Language Center Rick Kern, UC Berkeley

  2. The BLC’s mission • To support the learning and teaching of foreign and heritage languages on the Berkeley campus and, where appropriate, in the University of California system. • Provide language instructors with opportunities to learn of new developments in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, and second language acquisition theory; • Support language research and its dissemination at professional meetings and in professional journals; • Provide faculty and students with learning resources and facilities; • Support faculty production of new language learning materials.

  3. The BLC’s tacit mission To INTELLECTUALIZE language learning and teaching To build an intellectual COMMUNITY of language teachers • Language Centers implicitly foster new ways of thinking • About the status of languages on the campus • About language teaching as an important and valued enterprise • About collaboration in resolving issues, developing materials, etc. • About colleagues from different languages as intellectual partners

  4. Four Key Objectives Outreach/Inreach Internationalization Research Resources

  5. The BLC in relation to… UC Berkeley’s mission National trends in language education

  6. Future Directions Partial stand-in for former UC Language Consortium Title VI funding work-arounds Centralized FL pedagogy courses? Undergraduate courses? Service learning initiatives

  7. 2013-14 BLC Revenue & Carry forward Total Resource = $1,012,000

  8. 2013-14 BLC Expenses Total Expenses = $995,000

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